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A lawsuit against the federal government by employees who were required to work without pay during the shutdown in 2013 is growing as hundreds of thousands of workers are notified of their eligibility to join, lawyers for the plaintiffs say. Some federal workers were sent home for 16 days in October 2013 after Congress failed to approve a budget to keep the government funded. Others were told to keep working. Federal agencies sent notices this month to people who could be covered by the lawsuit — workers deemed "essential" during the shutdown, including federal corrections officers, firefighters, air traffic controllers, Border Patrol agents and Park Police. At least...

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A lawsuit against the federal government by employees who were required to work without pay duringthe shutdown in 2013 is growing as hundreds of thousands of workers are notified of their eligibility to join, lawyers for the plaintiffs say.Some...

Maryland's Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a cap on monetary awards in lawsuits against local governments, turning back an effort to collect $11.5 million awarded to the family of a Prince George's County man fatally shot by police.
The ruling means...

A lawn and garden products supplier started 90 years ago by Russian immigrants met its end in a flurry of court actions alleging its former president, Malcomb Cork, defrauded the business and concealed his actions.Cork has pleaded not guilty in U.S....

The Montgomery County mortgage lender arrived at the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore with money clips holding 50 neatly folded $100 bills. But after the player spent 80 minutes at a blackjack table, a shift manager approached, told him politely but firmly that...

Gerald M. Richman, an Ellicott City attorney and decorated Vietnam veteran whose legal career spanned more than 40 years, died of pancreatic cancer March 19 at his Pikesville home. He was 73."Jerry was a very fine lawyer and a wonderful...

In DeWolfe v. Richmond, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that a criminal defendant's first appearance before a judicial officer after arrest triggers the constitutional right to counsel under the due process clause of the Maryland Declaration of Rights....

President Barack Obama has nominated trial attorney Paula Xinis to become a U.S. District Court judge in Maryland.
Xinis, a partner at the Baltimore law firm of Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, was an assistant federal public defender for 13 years, and...

A Baltimore County woman was arrested Thursday and charged with stealing close to $10,000 from the Orems Elementary School's PTA during the time she was the group's president.Christine Samuels, 43, of Essex turned herself in to authorities Thursday and...

They call themselves the "Justice Sisters." They're the five women of Harford County's judiciary and today they're the majority.
That wasn't always the case. Before Mimi Cooper's appointment as District Court Judge in 1999, no woman had sat...

A man whose murder conviction was thrown out after another man confessed has sued Baltimore police, saying the nearly two decades he spent in prison robbed him of the best years of his life.Sabein Burgess, 44, who was incarcerated for 19 years before...

Adnan Syed, the imprisoned subject of the "Serial" podcast series, said his trial lawyer's failure to interview an alibi witness was worse than many other cases in which new trials were granted.
"The errors by trial counsel were of such...

Bird River Road bends and gives up its memories.
"That's where Adam's real dad lived," Christine Samuels says, nodding out the car window as she heads down the familiar road.
She was 17 and still in high school when Adam was born. "We...

A group of lawyers supporting Adnan Syed has set up a legal trust and hired a private investigator to help him fight for a new trial.The trust, which includes Baltimore attorney Dennis E. Robinson and Rabia Chaudry, an attorney and Syed family friend, was...

Through two recent murder trials, Darryl Martin Anderson, a reputed gang hit man with a long rap sheet, refused to play the villain.The 27-year-old sat quietly at the trial table, with a judge later remarking that he was a "perfect gentleman."...

A 39-year-old man admitted in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Monday that he killed his ex-girlfriend with a butcher knife as she lay in bed for an afternoon nap, and then fled to South Carolina with one of their daughters in a case that sparked a...

Maryland has joined nine other states, the District of Columbia and the Federal Trade Commission in opposing a merger of the country's two largest food distribution companies on grounds that the union would create a near-monopoly in this region and...

A federal grand jury has added eight defendants to the prosecution of alleged Cherry Hill gang members, linking the members to a total of six murders and nine shootings, the U.S. attorney's office announced Monday.The new charges focus on alleged...

The publishers of Wikipedia and several rights groups became the latest plaintiffs to challenge the National Security Agency's surveillance programs in court, alleging that the Fort Meade-based organization conducts "mass Internet spying" on...

In a shift from the "tough on crime" rhetoric of years past, some Maryland lawmakers are questioning whether the state has gone overboard in punishing ex-offenders long after they have paid their dues and returned to the street.
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A freshman Baltimore County state delegate agreed Monday to a yearlong protective order barring him from contact with his teenage daughter, and later in the day lost his seat on a committee that deals with domestic violence issues.The 18-year-old daughter...